Andrew Dilley offers a major new study of financial dependence, examining the connections this dependence forged between the City and political life in Edwardian Australia and Canada, mediated by ideas of political economy. In doing so he reconstructs the occasionally imperialistic politic of finance which pervaded the British World at this time.

Few aspects of the history of modern empires are of such significance as their economics and politics. These factors are inextricably linked in many analyses, have generated extensive historiographical debate and are currently the subject of some of the freshest and liveliest scholarship. The articles and chapters which are brought together in this volume relate not only to the European colonial empires, but also to the Napoleonic, Russian and Japanese empires. The collection is strongly comparative in approach with the articles arranged into thematic sections on: the place of politics and economics in the rise and fall of modern empires; the causal relationship between modern empires and colonial, global, and metropolitan economic transformations; and the ’technologies of rule’ which provided the frameworks through which colonial economies were managed, and rights defined. The collection reflects new approaches, as well as the continuing importance of issues addressed in an older historiography, and the thematic arrangement produces useful juxtapositions of older and newer literatures. The substantial introduction explores the themes and identifies key historiographical trends in relation to each.

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Jointly sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies and the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, this book brings together experts from each of the countries covered: Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Sweden, UK, USA, and the former USSR. Together, they provide a comprehensive survey of this critical period in the emergence of the modern world economy. Contributors: B.V. Anan'ich, Hubert Bonin, V.I. Bovykin, Albert Broder, Rondo Cameron, Fred V. Carstensen, Vincent P. Carosso, P.L. Cottrell, Ian M. Drummond, A.A. Fursenko, Martine Goossens, Peter Hertner, Kanji Ishii, Hans Christian Johansen, Frank H.H. King, Gyorgy Kover, Maria Barbara Levy, Ragnhild Lundstrom, Ruth AmEnde Roosa, Richard Sylla, Jacques Thobie, Richard Tilly, Herman Van der Wee, Ulrich Wengenroth, and Mira Wilkins.

This book presents a range of new research on British-Chinese relations in the period from Britain’s first imperial intervention in China up to the 1960s. Topics covered include economic issues such as fi nance, investment and Chinese labour in British territories, questions of perceptions on both sides, such as British worries about, and exaggeration of, the ‘China threat’, including to India, and British aggression towards, and eventual withdrawal from, China.